About
Who Built This
and Why
The firm behind the AI. One decade of CTO-level pattern recognition, now available at deal speed.
Michael Petychakis
Fractional CTO and technical due diligence advisor for investor-backed software companies.
Michael is a technology executive with over a decade of experience across PE-backed companies, venture-funded startups, and enterprise architecture.
He built badcop.tech after watching PE firms pay tens of thousands of dollars and wait three weeks for technical assessments that missed the risks that actually mattered. Currently CTO at Dialectica, advising select PE firms and VC funds.
10+Years as CTO
700Engineers scaled
4xFortune 40 Under 40
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Former CTO of ORFIUM. Scaled the engineering team from zero to 700 people globally. Fortune 40 Under 40, four consecutive years.
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Electrical and Computer Engineering degree and MSc, National Technical University of Athens. Research focused on APIs and web technologies.
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Executive MBA, Stanford University (2020). Active advisor through Endeavor Greece and the Entrepreneurs' Organization.
Technical Diligence Was Broken. We Fixed It.
PE and M&A due diligence has a technical blind spot. Legal review gets weeks. Financial review gets dedicated teams. Technical review gets a junior associate and a three-question checklist.
The result: deals close with hidden technical debt that surfaces six months post-close. Key engineers leave the week after acquisition.
Michael built badcop.tech to close this gap. AI-driven assessment combined with a decade of CTO-level pattern recognition. Investor-ready technical intelligence in hours, not weeks, at a fraction of the cost.